Uwe Schmidt Totally Explained

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Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom™, Señor Coconut; born 1968 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a German DJ and producer of electronic music.

Career

Schmidt produced dance music during the 90s under a number of monikers including Atom Heart.
   In 1994, Schmidt started his own label, Rather Interesting with the aim of developing music that doesn't follow the "traditional paths of electronic music".
   In 1996 he decided to move to Santiago, Chile to explore Latin music. He quickly adopted the intentionally ridiculous Señor Coconut moniker, and soon released El Gran Baile, finding time afterwards to do a little remix work for Towa Tei, formerly of the multi-national Deee-Lite.
   His next release, in 2000, was the Latin-Kraftwerk fusion of El Baile Alemán. The album featured several Kraftwerk classics reworked with Latin instrumentation and rhythm. El Baile Alemán was intended as a salute to, and a parody of Kraftwerk as evidenced by the intro to "Autobahn" which featured the sound of a car that wouldn't start.
   The album was credited to Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto, but the album was entirely the work of Schmidt on synthesizers and samplers, with the aid of three vocalists. It received just enough critical acclaim in the U.S. for Schmidt to put together a short headlining tour. In March, 2001, Señor Coconut, complete with a seven-piece backing band, set off for North America, but visa problems with some of the Chilean musicians forced Schmidt to cancel the tour, but he was able to play in Latin American venues in countries like Mexico.

Aliases

Almost Digital
Atom™
Atom™ feat. Tea Time
Atom Heart
Atomu' Shinzo
Bass
Bi-Face
The Bitniks
Brown
Bund Deutscher Programmierer
CMYK
Coeur Atomique
Datacide (a collaboration with and Tetsu Inoue)
The Disk Orchestra
Dos Tracks
Dots
Dr Mueller
Dropshadow Disease
Erik Satin
Flanger (a collaboration with and Burnt Friedman)
Flextone
Fonosandwich
Geeez 'N' Gosh
Gon
HAT (a collaboration with Haruomi Hosono and Tetsu Inoue)
H. Roth
i
Interactive Music
Jet Chamber
Lassigue Bendthaus
LB
Le Diapason
Lisa Carbon
Lisa Carbon & Friends
The Lisa Carbon Trio
Los Negritos
Los Samplers
Machine Paisley
Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance
Midisport
Mike Mc Coy
Millennium
Mono™
M/S/O

+N (a collaboration with Victor Sol)

Naturalist

Ongaku

Pentatonic Surprise

Pornotanz

Real Intelligence

The Roger Tubesound Ensemble

Schnittstelle

Second Nature

Semiacoustic Nature

Señor Coconut

Silver Sound

Slot

Softcore

Soundfields

Subsequence

Superficial Depth

Surtek Collective (a collaboration with Original Hamster)

Synthadelic

Urban Primitivism

VSVN

Weird Shit

Partial discography

As Lassigue Bendthaus

Matter (1991)

Binary (1992)

Cloned (1992)

Render (1994)

As Atomu Shinzo

Act (1993)

As Atom Heart

Datacide II (1993)

Coeur Atomique (1993)

Orange (1994)

Live at Sel I/S/C (1994)

+N - ex.s (1994) (with Victor Sol & Alain "Stocha" Baumann; guest appearance by Chris & Cosey)

+N - plane (1994) (with Victor Sol)

Dots (1994)

Softcore (1994)

Aerial Service Area (1994) (with Victor Sol and Niko Heyduck)

VSVN (1995)

Mu (1995)

Semiacoustic Nature (1995)

Silver Sound 60 (1995)

Bass (1995)

Real Intelligence (1995)

Machine Paisley (1996)

Hat (1996)

Brown (1996)

Apart (1996)

+N - built. (1996) (with Victor Sol)

Gran Baile Con...Señor Coconut (1997)

Digital Superimposing (1997)

Schnittstelle (1998)

As Lisa Carbon

Experimental Post Techno Swing (1993)

Polyester (1995)

Trio de Janeiro (1997)

"Standards" (2003)

As Flanger

Templates (1999, Ntone, Cat. no: NTONECD33, CD)

Midnight Sound (2000, Ntone, Cat. no: NTONECD40, CD)

Inner Spacesuit (2001, Ninja Tune, Cat. no: ZEN12105, 12")

Outer Space / Inner Space (2001, Ninja Tune, Cat. no: ZEN61/ZENCD61, 2xLP/CD)

Spirituals (2005, Nonplace, Cat. no: NON18, CD)

Nuclear Jazz (Templates/Midnight Sound) (2007, Nonplace, Cat. no: NON21, CD)

As Geeez 'N' Gosh

My Life With Jesus (2000)

Nobody Knows (2002)

As lb

Pop Artificielle (2000)

As Bund Deutscher Programmierer

Stoffwechsel (2000)

As Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto

El Gran Baile (1997)

El Baile Alemán (2000)

Fiesta Songs (2003)

Señor Coconut presents Coconut FM (2005)

Yellow Fever! (2006) (as Señor Coconut and His Orchestra)

(2008)

As The Disk Orchestra

[k] (2001) Style: experimental/indus/noise

As Midisport

14 Footballers In Milkchocolate (2001)

As Dos Tracks

:) (2002)

Dos Tracks (2002)

As Atom™

CMYK (2005)

iMix (2005)

Son Of A Glitch (2007) (with Mikrosopht, Audiocrip, Original Hamster, The Machinist, and Yoshi)

As Los Negritos

Speed-Merengue Mega-Mix 2005 (2005)

As Surtek Collective (with Original Hamster)

"The Birth Of Aciton" (2007)Further Information

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